Giacomo Rocca (or Giacomo della Rocca) (died between 1592 and 1605) was an Italian painter of the

late Renaissance Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...

or Mannerist period. He was a pupil of

Daniele da Volterra Daniele Ricciarelli (; 15094 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra (, ), was a Mannerist Italian painter and sculptor. He is best remembered for his association with the late Michelangelo. Several of Daniele's most important works ...

, and aided in completion of

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es for the first chapel on the right of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome. Rocca's biography is sketched in Giovanni Baglione's '' Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti dal pontificato di Gregorio XIII del 1572 in fino a tempi di Papa Urbano VIII nel 1642''.

Works

*Frescoes in the Ricci Chapel, San Pietro in Montorio *''Prophets and Sibyls and Subjects in the Old Testament'', frescoes at the Galleria and the Palazzo Sacchetti chapel in Rome *''Roman Triumphs'', frescos (worked with Michele degli Alberti) at the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome

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Santa Maria degli Angeli description.

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